In the News (Thu 22 Feb 18)

The office of the Chief Electoral Officer for Canada was established in 1920, leading to the recognition of several new classes of voters throughout the land.

The Elections Canada definition of this term is almost poetic: "The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it.

Canada's 12th Parliament was allowed to run for almost six years only because of a temporary amendment contained in a 1916 revision to the British North America Act.

Strictly speaking, the 1911 silver dollar is not a "true" coin, but rather a pattern or trial piece, and was never released for general circulation.

One specimen is now owned by the Bank of Canada, and is on display in the Bank of Canada Currency Museum in Ottawa, together with the lead strike which was used to mint the pattern coins.

It was not until 1935, that the first fully circulating Canadian silver dollar was issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King George V. The obverse depicts the anniversary portrait of George V, with the reverse bearing the standard voyageur design.

From the days of Canada’s infancy, through its tumultuous teenage years and growth into a responsible adult player on the world stage, there has been one magazine that has not only reported the news to Canadians, but has taken an active role in the discussion of the issues.

Canada Post is proud to honour 100 years of journalistic excellence by Maclean’s magazine with a commemorative stamp issued today.

The magazine spotlights Canada's rising talent, thinkers and doers from business to entertainment, from politics to sports and provides a forum for a new generation of Canadian writers, illustrators and photographers.

In 1867 3 British selfgoverning colonies in Northern America (Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) were united into a new federal selfgoverning colony, also named Canada.

Following the Imperial Conference of 1926 Canada became one of the equal members of the British Empire and in 1931, with the Statute of Westminster, it finally achieved full sovereignty, while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.

Sir William O'Grady Haly 1810 - 1878 In 1871 all British troops - except a garrison at Halifax until 1905 - left Canada and responsability for the defence of Canada was entrusted to a permanent Canadian militia.

The purpose of the conference is the negotiation of a convention to replace that of 1911 between the same four countries (the United Kingdom represented Canada in 1911).

Since 1911, Canada has joined in a number of regional agreements for the conservation of fish and sea mammals, and such agreements are desirable not only for conservation reasons but also because they help to prevent international disputes.

The 1911 convention was negotiated because widespread pelagic sealing (the killing of seals at sea) had seriously reduced the number of fur seals in the North Pacific.

In addition to electing a Chief for the Dominion of Canada, it was recommended that there should also be elected one hundred and eleven subordinate chieftains of provinces, electoral divisions, counties, localities and townships to represent all the Frasers, estimated by John Fraser de Berry to be about 12,000.

We are fortunate that the members of CFS of Canada, some of whom are descended from the dedicated people involved in these early Clan Fraser organizations, are very much interested in learning more about their heritage in Canada and Scotland.

It is probably safe to say that the majority of the descendants of Scottish immigrants to Canada have benefitted from the courage, hardship and perseverance of their ancestors in forging new lives while clinging to the old culture and traditions.

A survey history, it traces the evolution of Canadian citizenship and the role played by immigration in the development of Canada from the turn of the century until 1977, when the last major amendment to the Citizenship Act was made.

Each book acts as a record for all of the names of the Canadians who fought and lost their lives in each of the six wars.

A research project that started in a classroom in Ontario and is done in schools across Canada.

Census of Canada, 1901 : Digitized images of the original census returns, which record age, nationality, religion, profession, income, education, etc for every single resident of Canada on 31 March 1901.

National Archives of Canada -- Colonial Archives : The Colonial Archives Database contains over 70,000 detailed descriptions (file or item) of textual documents in the archival collection, pertaining primarily to the British and French colonial periods and archival collections relating to the Catholic Church.

Western Canada Land Grants (1870-1930) : Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior.

Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and as of April 1, 1999, Nunavut).

Canada was taken for France in 1534 by Jacques Cartier.

At that time the population of Canada was almost entirely French, but in the next few decades, thousands of British colonists emigrated to Canada from the British Isles and from the American colonies.

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netox.com - Important information on republican revolution of 1911(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

The term can also refer to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution that led to the establishment of the Republic of China.

He had admired statesmen who opposed imperialism, but on 6 December 1911 he had...

The Republican Revolution of 1911 Failure of reform from the top and the fiasco of the Boxer Uprising convinced many Chinese that the only real solution lay in outright revolution, in sweeping away the...

Although George V aceeded to the throne on May 6th 1910, on the death of his father Edward VII, all British coins dated 1910 continued to use Edward's portrait, and 1911 was the first year in which coins were issued with George's portrait.

Fortunately, 1911 was a plentiful year for sovereigns, and this is reflected in the reasonable prices and excellent grades we can offer.

In 1911, sovereigns were issued at the Royal Mint, London, and at Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in Australia, and also Ottawa in Canada.

In 1922, the shield of the arms of Canada replaced the quartered shield badge on the Canadian Red Ensign, Blue Ensign and the flag of the Governor-General.

The arrangement was based on the mistaken belief that putting the white band at the top of the shield was analogous to the label of an eldest son on the arms of his parents.

On 25 February 1931, slightly in advance of the Statute of Westminster, which gave legal form to Balfour's 1926 definition of Dominion status, the 1922 flag of the Governor-General was replaced by the royal crest on a blue flag, to show that he now represented the sovereign, and not the British government.

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Canada is the 38th country that has profited from Czeslaw Slania's exquisite burin.

The portrait features Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister, and held office from 1896 to 1911.

In the realm of international affairs, Prime Minister Borden enhanced Canada's diplomatic reputation and status as a sovereign nation.

The only 1911 Canadian silver dollar known in private hands is being offered with several other major Canadian rarities Jan. 13 in New York City by Heritage World Coin Auctions.

The rarities are part of the virtually complete Sid and Alicia Belzberg collection of Canadian coinage, which encompasses more than 700 pieces of Canadian decimal coinage from 1858 on, and the separate coinages of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland prior to their joining the Confederation.

Only two examples of the silver 1911 Canadian dollar, nicknamed "Emperor of Canadian coins," are known to exist, one of which is permanently housed in the Bank of Canada Museum in Ottawa.

Canadian Census » Genealogy Blog(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)

The 1911 Census of Canada includes nine provinces, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, and two territories — the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories.

The 1911 Census records, as with the 1901 and 1906 records, are not searchable by name.

Statistics Canada, in conjunction with Library and Archives Canada, will, as part of the 2006 Census public communications campaign, encourage Canadians to allow future access to their census records to preserve Canada’s history for future generations.